Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.
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Dark Energy Exists and Its Tearing the Universe Apart
No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.
Read More »Shell to Build Largest Object Ever to Float On Water
Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.
Read More »Can Planets Be Orphans Too?
The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.
Read More »Nocturnal Dinosaurs May Have Been a Thing That Existed
Researchers at UC-Davis believe that there are a number of species of ancient dinosaur that were nocturnal, meaning they spent their conscious hours at night.
Read More »Environmentalists Find New Way to Protest Fukushima
Greenpeace has come up with a new way of protesting nuclear power... well, it's not really "new," but it's pretty nifty. Not effective, but nifty.
Read More »Yellowstone Supervolcano is Larger than Previously Thought
New geoelectric imagery of Yellowstone National Park shows that the plume of magma underneath the park is larger than previously thought to be...
Read More »Relive the First Space Shuttle Launch
In 1981 the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' launched, initiating 30 years of Space Shuttle service.
Read More »50 Years Ago, Man Entered Space
On this date in 1961, the first human being entered outer space. Mankind's first venture was brief, but it would lead to many, many more.
Read More »Scientists Want to Make Photosynthesis Better
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have announced plans to begin researching the possibility of increasing photosynthesis in crops.
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